James Brodie, 16th Baron Brodie

The Laird of Brodie

James Brodie, the son of Alexander Brodie of Alexander Brodie, was married to Lady Mary Ker, a younger daughter of William, Earl of Lothian, on the 2Hth of July, 1659; and m his Diary, the Laird records that three days later ^^ she did subscribe her Covenant to and with God,*' an obligation to which she appears to have faithfully adhered, in declining all compliance with the prelate minister, when a dark cloud hung over our national Church.

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There is a singular degree of touching pathos in the mournful regrets expressed by the younger Brodie on occasion of his father's death, lamenting how little he had profited by his instructions, and recording anew the resolutions he had formed of treading in his footsteps, and striving to imitate his example. On that day when he takes up his father's Diary, and during the time that intervened till the day of the funeral, he dwells on the gi*eat and irreparable loss sustained by his removal. This Diary, by James Brodie of Brodie, breaks off with February, 1685, but it was no doubt carried on during the rest of his life, in one or more subsequent volumes, not now preserved. He inherited so much of the character and devotional spirit of his Father, that unless for the dates, and the subject of his Diary, we might have still mistaken it for that of the older Brodie. The handwriting is more legible, and he makes no use of cyphers, but even in the orthography, in the omission of the final e*s, and the phraseology he uses, there is a marked resemblance. He also, constantly " desires to be instructed," or " to lay it seriously.